INTEGRATING DESIGN TOOLS FOR TOTAL BUILDING EVALUATION

To advance the use of expert systems and simulation tools, in fact to make them acceptable and usable to practitioners, a new approach is re quired in the development of an expert system and simulation tool envi ronment. In this paper we detail the work currently taking place in Ne w Zealand on the development of such an integrated environment for the use of multiple simulation tools and expert systems in the design pro cess and for the analysis and refinement of the design as it progresse s to a more concrete form.